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Windows 95 Released
August 24, 1995 Kicking off one of the largest product launches in technology history, Microsoft releases the highly anticipated Windows 95. More than one million copies will be sold in the first four days of its release. The post Windows 95 Released appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History…
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Windows 95 Released
August 24, 1995 Kicking off one of the largest product launches in technology history, Microsoft releases the highly anticipated Windows 95. More than one million copies will be sold in the first four days of its release. The post Windows 95 Released appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History…
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Windows 95 Released
August 24, 1995 Kicking off one of the largest product launches in technology history, Microsoft releases the highly anticipated Windows 95. More than one million copies will be sold in the first four days of its release. The post Windows 95 Released appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History…
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Windows Hits Version 2.1
May 27, 1988 Microsoft releases 2 versions of Windows 2.1 – One for 286 computers and one for 386 computers. Do you remember this version of Windows? No? Not many people do. It wasn’t until version 3 that Windows had any sort of appreciable user base. The post Windows Hits Version 2.1 appeared first on…
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Windows 98 is Plug and … Whoa?
April 20, 1998 During the COMDEX Spring ’98 and Windows World shows in Chicago, a public demonstration of the soon-to-be released Windows 98 goes awry when Bill Gates’ assistant causes the operating system to crash after plugging in a scanner. Instead of showing the plug-and-play capabilities they were trying to demonstrate, a “Blue Screen of…
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Windows 2000 Introduced
February 17, 2000 Microsoft introduces the latest version of the Windows NT line of operating systems, Windows 2000. While Windows 2000 did bring plug and play to the Windows NT line, it was targeted to the business market and not the consumer. It was not until Windows XP that Microsoft merged the NT line with…
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Windows Refund Day
February 15, 1999 Hundreds of computer owners (dominated by Linux users) march on Microsoft’s offices demanding refunds for the copies of Windows that came pre-installed on their computers. This day came to be known as Windows Refund Day. The post Windows Refund Day appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech…
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Windows 2.0 Released
December 9, 1987 Microsoft releases version 2.0 of Windows. The most notable feature of Windows 2.0 was that application windows could overlap each other, unlike in Windows 1.0. The terminology of “Minimize” and “Maximize” was also introduced in Windows 2.0. Windows 2.0 was a relatively obscure operating system, as the popularity of Windows did not…
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Windows 95 Released
August 24, 1995 Kicking off one of the largest product launches in technology history, Microsoft releases the highly anticipated Windows 95. More than one million copies will be sold in the first four days of its release. The post Windows 95 Released appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History…
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Windows 95 Released
August 24, 1995 Kicking off one of the largest product launches in technology history, Microsoft releases the highly anticipated Windows 95. More than one million copies will be sold in the first four days of its release. The post Windows 95 Released appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History…